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World Today · 2026-09-28

45 earthquakes recorded today

24 hours to 02:50 UTC, rebuilt 2026-09-28 02:50 UTC · 1,088 scan uploads · 3 phones · 41 hexes · 45 earthquakes · 72 natural events
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Overview Our phones scanned 41 hexes in 24 hours. They uploaded 1,088 scans from three phones. The planet showed extensive snow in Greenland and Antarctica. Dust haze was thick over Indonesia and India. Lights at night were brightest over China, Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Where the phones measured Phones measured 41 hexes, including 19 never‑seen before. They uploaded 1,088 scans, a drop of 12% from the weekly average. The three phones were in Antwerp, Erfurt and Mountain View, covering 16, 24 and 1 hexes respectively.

Sky and planet Snow covered about 16.9 million km², most in Greenland (307,674 km²) and Antarctica (258,791 km²). Sea ice covered about 16.4 million km², largest off Russia (260,850 km²). Thick haze with optical depth up to 1.13 was over Indonesia, and 1.56 over India. Night lights were strongest over cities in China, Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo with 9.8 nW/(cm² sr). The aurora chance is 20% over Antarctica. Space weather is quiet with Kp 0.33, and there were 45 earthquakes, including a magnitude 5 in the South Sandwich Islands region.

Tomorrow, from the history Tomorrow scan uploads are forecast at about 1,069, a slight decrease from today’s 1,088 and based on the past week’s history. Hexes measured are expected around 35, a small drop from today’s 41, according to historical trends.

Worth opening today

3 things the day's numbers point at.
Wildfire Merit Creek, Greene, Mississippi (United States of America)
Tropical Storm Fay (the open ocean)
Iceberg D33C (off the coast of Antarctica)

The numbers

Last 24 hours unless marked. Counts, never identities: no phone, person or device is ever named.
1,088
scan uploads
3
phones mining
41
hexes measured
19
measured for the first time ever
3
places
6
countries this week
3,276
hexes in the atlas, all time
26
countries, all time
45
earthquakes 2.5+, strongest M5
72
natural events NASA tracks
0.3
Kp now, quiet; peak 3.3
20%
best aurora chance on Earth
0
speed tests
16,620
active satellites in the catalogue
17M
km² of snow the satellite saw
16M
km² of sea ice
not measured
today
average sea surface, whole ocean
0.06
average haze where measured
53
wildfires tracked
8
severe storms tracked
0
volcanoes erupting
11
floods, dust, ice and snow events

Everything reported, where

Every place, hex, earthquake and event of the day. Tap a chip to filter, then open any line on the 3D Earth or in the Explorer.
The network
Events on the planet
Seen by the satellites, NASA day 2026-09-27
20 days of history recorded so far. The forecast is the recent average nudged by the direction of travel, nothing more. Changes and records compare today against the days before it, never against a window that contains today.
scan uploads1088-12% vs 7 days
phones mining3-40% vs 7 days
hexes measured41-8% vs 7 days
new hexes19+19% vs 7 days
earthquakes 2.5+45+10% vs 7 days
natural events tracked72-14% vs 7 days
peak Kp3.33+13% vs 7 days
speed tests0-100% vs 7 days
snow-covered km²16913898+10% vs 7 days
sea ice km²16411433-3% vs 7 days
wildfires tracked53-21% vs 7 days
severe storms tracked8+51% vs 7 days
Tomorrow, scan uploadsabout 1,069695 to 1,443
Tomorrow, hexes measuredabout 3523 to 47
Tomorrow, new hexesabout 117 to 15
Tomorrow, earthquakes 2.5+about 4529 to 60

Past days

Seven days are kept as full reports. A compact row per day is kept forever for the trends.
Sources: Invisible Atlas's own aggregate measurements (counts per hex, never identities); NASA GIBS imagery and layers (public domain, credit requested); NOAA SWPC Kp index and OVATION aurora; USGS earthquakes; NASA EONET events; CelesTrak catalogue (Dr. T.S. Kelso). The narrative is written by an AI model from the numbers on this page and nothing else, through Groq, OpenRouter or 1min.ai; when none answers, a plain template is shown and labelled. Forecasts are computed from the recorded history and are not measurements. Place search uses Photon by komoot in your browser. Privacy.